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Surely this photo encapsulates the Pacific war for American aircrews. Whilst the European theatre boys enjoyed hot women, cold beer and warm beds, their Pacific counterparts experienced no women, hot beer and damp tents. The gentleman on the left, sitting on the rail, and taken at Nadzab, was (then) Major John P. Henebry who would eventually command the 3rd Attack Group. Henebry flew as a Captain in the battle of the Bismarck Sea and recalled at the time "feeling scared as hell". Henebry experinced both adventure and misadventure during his New Guinea tour, including ditching B-25D-10-NA serial #41-30316 some four hundred yards off Kiriwina after the infamous 2nd November 1943 Rabaul raid. All of Henebry's crew survived, and this Mitchell surely had one of the finest names of the Pacific war - Notre Dame de Victoire. After the war Henebry went on to become a senior general in the US Air Force.

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